Photo Gallery: 55th Brooks Street Classic surfing contest in Laguna Beach
Pro-am champion Ryah Arthur goes high off the lip of a wave during in the 55th Brooks Street Classic surfing contest in Laguna Beach on Sunday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Travis Booth, winner of the junior men’s division (ages 14-17), drops into a wave during the 55th Brooks Street Classic surfing contest in Laguna Beach over the weekend.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Boys 13-and younger winner Zack Van Meter performs a backside off the top of a wave in the Brooks Street Classic surfing contest in Laguna Beach on Sunday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Senior masters division winner Hans Hagen performs a “foam climb” on Sunday during the Brooks Street Classic surfing contest in Laguna Beach.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Chad Gibbs, third-place finisher in the grand masters division, goes off the lip during the 55th Brooks Street Classic surf contest in Laguna Beach.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Jeff Booth surfs in the pro-am division final during in the 55th Brooks Street Classic surfing contest in Laguna Beach on Sunday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Trey Lockhart performs in the junior men’s division of Laguna Beach’s Brooks Street Classic surfing contest on Sunday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Michael Chapman, winner of the men’s division (ages 18-23), carves a turn during the 55th Brooks Street Classic surf contest in Laguna Beach on Sunday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)A surfer rides the barrel during the Brooks Street Classic in Laguna Beach.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Porter Hogan sends a sheet of water out the back of a wave en route to winning the senior men’s division (ages 24-29) in the 55th Brooks Street Classic surfing contest in Laguna Beach on Sunday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Matt Flotho surfs with a rose in his mouth to honor Brooks Street surfing regular Richard Carlson, who died this year, during Flotho’s grand masters heat Sunday in the 55th Brooks Street Classic surfing contest in Laguna Beach.
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